Three quarters of UK women have experienced harassment in cities
New research highlights widespread gender-based violence and harassment in cities around the world
Aid
The UN development goals miss the point – it’s all about power
The answer to world poverty won’t be found among the celebrities in New York this weekend
Africa is losing six-and-a-half-times the amount it receives in aid
Wealthy governments, including the UK, bear responsibility for much of Africa’s loss of resources.
Opinion: British politicians’ apathy towards sweatshops
British politicians are happy to criticise domestic employment practices, but say nothing about the conditions of workers internationally.
Bring on the oranges – what is there to play for in the second half of the UK’s G8 Presidency?
After the photo opportunities, early morning swims and talk of famous blues musicians last week in Lough Erne, the temptation is to think it’s all over for the UK’s Presidency of the G8.
Has anyone else woken up this morning with a G8 hangover?
Has anyone else woken up this morning with a G8 hang-over? Maybe it’s just me? Maybe I drank too much of the Kool-aid but weren’t we expecting a bit better than this?
We must resist the privatisation of aid
The evidence for privatising aid is thin. So let’s at least have the debate before subjecting millions of people in the global south to free market experiments.
Cameron may be breaking OECD aid rules to placate Tory backbenchers
David Cameron’s proposal to allow development aid to be used to fund military spending risks breaking OECD as well as Britain’s own International Development Act.
How did Greening’s “accountant’s eye” miss the WCML screw up while at Transport?
New international development secretary Justine Greening has pledged a “line-by-line” examination of DFID spending – yet she failed to spot the WCML farce.
Ashcroft on Aid: ‘We can’t afford it’
During the recent reshuffle the government shifted rightwards in both tone and substance . Cameron has long aimed to stop the Tory party from being known as the ‘nasty party’, but he is undoubtedly failing. This was reaffirmed today bytest